Christchurch Heritage Festival – Threads of Time – Tracing Communities through Family History

Explore the evolving communities of Canterbury and beyond, through the lives of the families who settled, struggled, and thrived here.

Learn to research your own family history with us. Join us for highlighted aspects of our collections and research tools that will help you understand more about your families’ arrival, and the communities they lived in. Migration, social change, historical events and anniversaries have all shaped the present-day fabric of our place.

Tour our resources, talk to experienced researchers, and get started on your own family history journey.

Hear talks and presentations – learn about key tools for your family history research, examples of tracing early Canterbury settlers and sharing and telling their stories. Let us all celebrate the living history of our region — one story at a time.

Also check out other Festivals in Christchurch.